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Definition of Sheafs
1. sheaf [v] - See also: sheaf
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheafs
Literary usage of Sheafs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"... To which under their arms their sheafs were buckled A short sword at their
belt, a buckler scarce a span, \V"ho struck below the knee, not counted then ..."
2. Certificate of Musters in the County of Somerset: Temp. Eliz. A. D. 1569 by Somerset (England) (1904)
"William Tanner, William Demond, ^iij bows, iij sheafs of arrows, and xii bills.
John Painter, and others ff ..."
3. Report on the Manuscripts of the Earl of Ancaster, Preserved at Grimsthorpe by Peregrine Bertie Willoughby de Eresby, Sophia Crawford Lomas (1907)
"[To find 9 harness, 5 bows and sheafs of arrows, and 4 bills.] Roger Martyn
gent., in lands 20?., moveables 500 marks. [To find 7 harness, 4 bows and sheafs ..."
4. History of the Old South Church (Third Church) Boston, 1669-1884 by Hamilton Andrews Hill (1889)
"I. Madam Winthrop Widdow Saith She Knows the pew to be Mr sheafs Right. ...
Mr sheafs Pew and that he Sat there only during his Pleasure. ..."
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